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Q&A Was the British army ready for war in 1914?

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Quiz – Would you have been accepted to join the army and fight in WW1 in August 1914? . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A colour image of military guns during World War One

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The First World War in colour

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The global First World War . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A detail of a fresco of Hannibal riding his elephant. It is estimated he took as many as 40 elephants when he marched an army across the Alps and into northern Italy. (Photo by Photo12/UIG/Getty Images)

Q&A How many elephants did Hannibal take over the Alps?

First World War: A German cavalry patrol in the battle of Tannenberg, where the Russian Narew-Army was encircled and beaten by the German troops led by Hindenburg and Ludendorff. (Film still!), 26.08.191 Date: 1914

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10 things you (probably) didn’t know about the bloody eastern front in 1914

Photo of a poppy growing in a preserved WWI trench

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Q&A Did the Somme offensive achieve anything?

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The World War Two French resistance and British holidays . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

American assault troops debark from their landing craft at a beachhead on D-Day. (Photo by MPI/Getty Images)

Q&A D-Day: How did a weather forecast change the fate of the war?

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A Nobel Prize, a 3,600-mile voyage and the battle of Marengo: 3 things that happened On This Day 14 June

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Bid to uncover battle of Hastings remains

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James Clerk Maxwell, Israeli troops and John Dickens: 3 things that happened On This Day 13 June

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The legacy of the First World War . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A nurse on the French Eastern border treats a wounded soldier during the First World War. (Photo by Roger Viollet/Getty Images)

Pain through the prism of war